Gucci Designer History
Guccio Gucci, born in 1881 in Florence, Italy, was the son of a Florentine leather craftsman. He acquired an appreciation for cosmopolitan culture, sophistication and aesthetics at a young age while working as an elevator operator at the Savoy Hotel in London. Upon returning to his native Florence, Gucci opened his first shop in 1921, where he crafted and sold luggage and saddlery. In 1937, Gucci relocated his shop to a larger space in Lungarno Guicciardini. Just one year later, the Gucci business opened a shop on Via Condotti in Rome. In 1951, Guccio's son, Rodolfo, opened a Gucci shop in Milan. In 1953, the same year that Guccio passed away, Rodolfo and another of Guccio's sons, Aldo, opened the first overseas Gucci shop on 58th Street Manhattan. In addition to fragrance, Gucci products include handbags and other leather goods, shoes, ready-to-wear clothing, cosmetics, skin care, jewelry, and watches.
Gucci Group N.V's principal activities are designing, distributing and manufacturing luxury apparel and accessories. Products of the Group include ready-to wear, handbags, luggage, small leather goods, shoes, timepieces, jewelry, ties and scarves, eyewear, perfumes, colognes, cosmetics and skin care products.
Gucci Perfume History
Born in 1881, craftsman’s son Guccio Gucci founded the House of Gucci as a
saddlery shop in Florence in 1906. Guccio's first talent was his craftsmanship
in leather goods. He started out selling leather bags to horsemen in the 1920’s
and progressed to luxury luggage as his clients graduated from equine
transportation to horseless carriages. In 1938 Guccio Gucci opened their first
retail shop on the Via Condotti in Rome.
In 1947 the immediately recognizable Gucci icon, the leather bag with bamboo
handle, is created. During the 1950’s the trademark red striped webbing is
introduced, taken from its original form place on a saddle girth. This became an
emblem much as the leather moccasin with leather bit.
Guccio Gucci created many of his classics early during the 1950’s; products such
as luggage, ties, shoes, and the famous handbags sporting the bamboo handle.
After his death in 1953, his family was able to take the enormously successful
company to new heights by opening stores in Paris, Beverly Hills, London, Palm
Beach, and Tokyo. The 1960’s brought increased fame to the Gucci Empire. Such
Hollywood stars as Grace Kelly, Peter Sellers and Audrey Hepburn made the name
Gucci synonymous with “chic”. Jackie Kennedy helped by being photographed with
the Gucci shoulder bag, which subsequently became known as the “Jackie O”. The
company adopts the “GG” logo.
But with the fame and recognition of the brand name came some turmoil. While
Gucci goods were considered a status symbol of the times, management and inner
family seemed to disagree. Brother Maurizio Gucci took an apparently ailing
business over from his founding brother, who in turn sold it to an Arab concern
in the 80’s.
In the 1990’s, Tom Ford, Gucci’s newest executive head, has brought Gucci back
to the center of chic, and now commands a varied line of products including
leather fashions, perfumes, colognes, cosmetics, shoes (including the moccasin
with the distinctive Gucci snaffle-bit), the "Flora" foulard created for Grace
Kelly by Rodolfo Gucci, suitcases, watches, jewelry, silk scarves, sports
articles, belt clasps (the one with the Guccio Gucci initials, was introduced
1964), ties, and eyeglasses.
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